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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Iran Warns US Against Military Option in Syria –

MOSCOW, (RIA Novosti) – Iran has warned Washington against
military

intervention in Syria amid growing concerns about the Syrian
government's alleged use of poison gas against civilians in the suburbs
of Damascus, the Fars news agency has reported.
"Iran has announced many times that the Syrian crisis has no military
solution and such provocative measures and comments will merely further
complicate the situation in the region and create more tensions," the
news agency quoted Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, Seyed Abbas
Araqchi, as saying.Iran believes the alleged gas attack in Ghouta,
an eastern suburb of Damascus, was “carried out by terrorist forces,”
Araqchi added. He said that the Syrian crisis can only be resolved
“through talks” and no international body has issued a permission for
military intervention.
His remarks came after US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on
Sunday the White House is studying different military options against
Syria.
"President Obama has asked the Defense Department to prepare options
for all contingencies. We have done that and we are prepared to exercise
whatever option - if he decides to employ one of those options,"
Reuters quoted Hagel as saying.
The Syrian opposition has accused the government of killing scores of people in a massive nerve gas attack
near Damascus on Wednesday, with death toll estimates varying from 100
to more than 1,000 people. The Syrian government promptly denied the
reports as baseless.
Doctors Without Borders, an international medical charity working
with hospitals in the Syrian capital, said on Saturday that thousands of
people were hospitalized in Damascus in less than three hours on August
21 with “neurotoxic symptoms,” which indicate “mass exposure to a
neurotoxic agent.”
The charity group made clear that it cannot say with any certainty
who or what caused these symptoms. According to information it has
received, 355 of the 3,600 people treated reportedly died.
Iran’s Press TV said Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem
expressed readiness to give a team of UN investigators access to the
site of an alleged chemical attack in a Damascus suburb in a phone
conversation with his Iranian counterpart on Sunday.
Syria’s information minister said on Saturday that any US-led
military action against the regime would be “no picnic.” "US military
intervention will create a very serious fallout and a ball of fire that
will inflame the Middle East," Syria's official SANA news agency quoted
Omran Zoabi as saying.